Lawyers for John A. Muhammad, convicted for his role in the Washington-area sniper shootings in 2002, argued before the state Supreme Court that he could not be sentenced to death under state law because he did not pull the trigger in the killings...

A Virginia judge sentenced John A. Muhammad to death on Tuesday in the sniper killings he directed in the Washington area in 2002, rejecting Mr. Muhammad's assertion that he had nothing to do with the rampage. In upholding the punishment recomm...

The trials of John A. Muhammad, the convicted mastermind of the Washington-area sniper killings, may be far from over. Mr. Muhammad, sentenced to death on Monday for the murder of Dean H. Meyers in Manassas, has also been charged with murder i...

After deliberating for just over five hours, a jury here sentenced John A. Muhammad to death on Monday for directing the Washington-region sniper killings, expressing dismay with what jurors saw as his steely lack of remorse for the attacks last f...

Panting, hysterical, in a voice shot through with primal pain, William Franklin knelt over his wife in a Home Depot parking lot and called 911. ''She's shot in the head!'' Mr. Franklin is heard to scream on the tape.

By JAMES DAO; James Dao and Lisa A. Bacon reported for this article from Virginia Beach and Adam Liptak from Chesapeake, Va

Lawyers for John A. Muhammad, who is charged with plotting the Washington-area sniper attacks, rested their case on Wednesday after taking just under three hours to present a defense. With five witnesses, the defense tried to poke holes in the...

The prosecution rested its case against John A. Muhammad on Monday, asserting that he had devised and directed a scheme of serial killings intended to terrorize the Washington area and extort $10 million from local governments. The prosecution'...

Iran Brown had been kicked off the school bus for eating candy, so his aunt drove him to Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie, Md., that Monday morning last fall. Moments after he got out of her car, he fell to the ground, a gunshot wound in his...